ABSTRACT
Organizational Culture Think back to the first day of any job you ever had, or even to your first day in a new school. Along with anticipation, there undoubtedly was a degree of fear. You wanted to know how things were done, how much you were expected to do, what the policy about coffee breaks was, where you could find out about preparing a budget for your division, and so on. Can you imagine how you would have felt had you showed up at your first senior staff meeting dressed in jeans and a turtleneck shirt, only to find everybody else in suits or dresses? If you had known about your organization’s culture, you would have been spared that embarrassment.
